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The story is never over by the time the media is finished with it. It's "old news," but the pain goes on...
10,000 homes in Christchurch will have to be demolished after force of quake 'liquified' ground underneath city
...Parts of the city, on New Zealand's south island, will have to be abandoned altogether after the magnitude 6.3 quake caused massive structural damage.
...It has caused 166 confirmed deaths so far, but that figure will rise as rescuers continue to search for bodies trapped in the rubble of buildings.
Earthquakes can cause sections of earth to liquefy and push up to the surface as watery silt, a process known as liquefaction.
In Christchurch, 260,000 tons of silt have already been scraped away.
Mr Key said: 'There are some parts of Christchurch that can't be rebuilt on.
'The liquefaction damage from the... earthquake is so great and the land damage... is so significant we can't remediate it.'
...Several hundred central city commercial buildings will also have to be bulldozed.
Mr Key said: 'Potentially there are some areas of Christchurch which will need to be abandoned and we will have to provide other alternatives for people to live in because the land has been so badly damaged we can't fix it - certainly not in a reasonable time frame.'
Modular houses will be brought in to provide temporary accommodation for some of the many thousands left homeless, many of whom will have to abandon their shattered homes and land.
...Almost all electricity supplies have been restored, but residents are being told to boil tap water because of the risk of contamination.
Officials say some 70,000 people - one-fifth of the city's population - have left as a result of the quake.
(H/T Global Disaster Watch)
The story is never over by the time the media is finished with it. It's "old news," but the pain goes on...
10,000 homes in Christchurch will have to be demolished after force of quake 'liquified' ground underneath city
...Parts of the city, on New Zealand's south island, will have to be abandoned altogether after the magnitude 6.3 quake caused massive structural damage.
...It has caused 166 confirmed deaths so far, but that figure will rise as rescuers continue to search for bodies trapped in the rubble of buildings.
Earthquakes can cause sections of earth to liquefy and push up to the surface as watery silt, a process known as liquefaction.
In Christchurch, 260,000 tons of silt have already been scraped away.
Mr Key said: 'There are some parts of Christchurch that can't be rebuilt on.
'The liquefaction damage from the... earthquake is so great and the land damage... is so significant we can't remediate it.'
...Several hundred central city commercial buildings will also have to be bulldozed.
Mr Key said: 'Potentially there are some areas of Christchurch which will need to be abandoned and we will have to provide other alternatives for people to live in because the land has been so badly damaged we can't fix it - certainly not in a reasonable time frame.'
Modular houses will be brought in to provide temporary accommodation for some of the many thousands left homeless, many of whom will have to abandon their shattered homes and land.
...Almost all electricity supplies have been restored, but residents are being told to boil tap water because of the risk of contamination.
Officials say some 70,000 people - one-fifth of the city's population - have left as a result of the quake.
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